Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1985. — 307 p. — ISBN 5-05-000017-3; ISBN 5-05-000018-1
Contents
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Poet of a New World. Foreword by Alexnder Ushakov translated by Dorian Rottenberg
I Myself
Poetry
Night
Morning
From Street to Street
What About You?
I
Great Big Hell of a City
How d’Ye Like This?
Listen!
And Yet
War’s Declared.
The Violin — a Little Bit Nervous
You!
The Way I Became a Dog
An Ode to Judges
To All and Everything.
Lily Dear! In Lieu of a Letter
Fed Up
The Cheap Sale
To His Own Beloved Self the Author Dedicates These Lines Revolution (A Poet’s Chronicle)
To Answer!
Our March
Clouds Up to Tricks
Humane to Horses
Order of the Day to the Army of Arts
Left March (For Sailors)
Ode to the Revolution
An Amazing Adventure of Vladimir Mayakovsky
Rot
Order No. 2 to the Army of Arts
Conference-Crazy
Paris (Chatting with the Eiffel Tower)
We Don’t Believe!
The Problem of Spring
Universal Reply
Vorovsky
Don’t Your Shoulder Blades Itch?
Nordemee
Komsomol Song
Jubilee Poem
Vladikavkaz-Tiflis
Tamara and the Demon
From Poems Devoted to Paris
The City
Verlaine and Cezanne
Versailles
Farewell (at a caf).
Last Farewell
From Poems About America
Atlantic Ocean
Some Shallow Philosophy Over the Deeps
Black and White
Contagious Cargo
Topics from the Tropics (en route from Vera Cruz to Mexico City)
Mexico
Broadway
A Skyscraper Dissected
A Decent Citizen
A Challenge.
Brooklyn Bridge
Home!
To Sergei Esenin
To British Workers
Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
Bribe-Takers
A Message to Proletarian Poets
A Factory of Bureaucrats
To Comrade Nette — Steamer and Man
Paperwork Habits
The Hooligan
A Chat in Odessa Harbour Between s. s. Soviet Daghestan and Red Abkhazia
Paper Horrors (experienced by Vladimir Mayakovsky)
To Our Young Generation
My Best Poem
Nothing New
“Beyond the Grasp of the Masses”
Yekaterinburg-Sverdlovsk
How Foundryman Ivan Kozyrev Moved into His New Flat
Office-Bugs
The Coward
Lines Not on Big but Petty Trash. Let Barb-Tongued
Rhymes This Species Lash
Crimea
Youth’s Secret.
The Pillar
The Toady
The Gossip
Tastes May Differ
A Letter from Paris to Comrade Kostrov on the Essence and Meaning of Love
A Letter to Tatyana Yakovleva
Conversation with Comrade Lenin
Two Competitions
All’s Quiet in the West
My Soviet Passport
Americans in Amazement
Happy Me!
We
A Story of Kuznetskstroy and Its Builders
Lovers of Hardships
Leninites.
Poems for Children
What Is Good and What Is Bad
Meet the Beasts
What Shall I Be?
Unfinished
Notes
Live Music
Archive
Librivox
Free Audio
Metropolitan Museum
Cleveland
Museum of Art
Internet
Arcade
Console Living Room
Open Library
American
Libraries
TV News
Understanding
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